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Sunday, December 2, 2012

The NHL and the NHL Players' Association have agreed to a meeting Tuesday afternoon in New York that will include onwers and players but not commissioner Gary Bettman or union executive director Donald Fehr.

The NHLPA is still in the process of selecting the group of players who will attend.

"There will be owners attending this meeting who have not previously done so, which is encouraging and which we welcome," Don Fehr said in a statement. "We hope that this meeting will be constructive and lead to a dialogue that will help us find a way to reach an agreement.”

Fehr said both sides will have also "a limited number of staff or counsel present." Daly is expected to attend for the league. The union has yet to reveal which member(s) of its staff will be there, but special counsel Steve Fehr is a likely candidate.

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TOM GULITTI has covered the New Jersey Devils for The Record since 2002. Prior to that, he covered the New York Rangers for four years. Gulitti joined The Record in 1998 after six years at The North Jersey Herald News. He graduated from Binghamton University in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts in Rhetoric-Literature.